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Today's poem is "What Do You Do for a Living?"

from Bennington Review

Hadara Bar-Nadav is an NEA fellow and author of several award-winning books of poetry, among them The Animal Is Chemical (forthcoming), The New Nudity, <>iLullaby (with Exit Sign), The Frame Called Ruin, and A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight, as well as the chapbooks Fountain and Furnace and Show Me Yours. She is also co-author with Michelle Boisseau of the best-selling textbook Writing Poems, 8th ed. Hadara is a Professor of English and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Other poems by Hadara Bar-Nadav in Verse Daily:
March 15, 2023:   "I Am Neither Surgical" by Hadara Bar-Nadav
May 26, 2020:   "The Blind" "I was the deep reader of dirt...."
December 17, 2019:   "Ventriloquist" "The old wound is speaking..."
November 13, 2017:   "Heart" "A bad word..."
December 9, 2015:   "Sugar" "Secret boxes..."
November 13, 2012:   "My Wife in All Things" "My wife the sun. A chiffon dress lit with poppies and devilish hearts. Buttershine on..."

Books by Hadara Bar-Nadav:

Other poems on the web by Hadara Bar-Nadav:
Two poems
Four poems
"What Do You Do For a Living?"
"Touchless Entry"
Six poems
"Blur"
"Dress (Aurora Borealis)"
Two poems
Four poems
"Latch"
Two poems
Three poems
Three poems
Three poems
Two poems
Four poems
"Family of Strangers"
Two poems
"The Last Gesture"
"Organizing Principle"
"Cafe with Faceless Man"

Hadara Bar-Nadav's Website.

Hadara Bar-Nadav on Twitter.

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